Villages still adjusting to garbage schedule

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/17/2016

SOME Cebu City barangays still collected and dumped garbage in designated areas within the day despite the new garbage collection schedule implemented by the Department of Public Services (DPS). “No matter how much we informed the barangays…

Hard pressed for resolution

Editorial 10/14/2016

With the Court of Appeals (CA) ruling favorably on the Writ of Kalikasan yet holding off on issuing a Temporary Environment Restraining Order (Tepo), the onus of resolving the debate over the Inayawan landfill’s fate is again…

Inayawan Landfill CA urges parties to settle amicably

Izobelle T. Pulgo 10/12/2016

No Temporary Environmental Protection Order (TEPO) was issued during yesterday’s summary hearing for the application of a TEPO in connection with the Writ of Kalikasan which the Court of Appeals issued for the Inayawan Landfill. Instead, the…

CA ISSUES WRIT OF KALIKASAN

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/11/2016

Finding the petition filed by Councilor Joel Garganera for the issuance of a Writ of Kalikasan sufficient in form and substance, the Court of Appeals (CA) issued the writ against Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña and two…

Osmeña eyes conversion of landfill into golf course

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/07/2016

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is eyeing a golf course to eventually rise on top of the Inayawan landfill. He said the city will continue dumping its wastes in the landfill, which he earlier said is still…

Losses and resolution

Ricky Poca 09/26/2016

The past two weeks have been devastating to the Rama family because last week, we buried a relative, a first cousin, in particular Concepcion “Connie” Rama Revilles, whom we lost due to complications caused by diabetes. Connie…

Crisis as opportunity for mainstreaming ecological waste management

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 09/25/2016

Mindfully Greenie For the Cebu City residents affected by the garbage crisis, the bigger concern to be resolved is not whether Inayawan “landfill” should be closed. The resolution of this crisis hinges on taking on responsibility not…

WRIT OF KALIKASAN VS CITY DUMPSITE

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/23/2016

To close or not to close the controversial Inayawan landfill will now be up to the Court of Appeals (CA) to decide. Making good on his promise to sue Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña over alleged violation…

Air quality tests

09/22/2016

If need be, a daily air quality test and/or a weekly/monthly assessment of air quality in the areas surrounding the Inayawan landfill should be done to determine once and for all if it should continue to operate.…

Writ of Kalikasan out this week

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/19/2016

Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera said he will file the petition for a Writ of Kalikasan in court sometime this week in order to compel the city government to close the Inayawan landfill. “I’m not threatening. I…

Cebu brand might as well be ‘Where Cebu stinks’ — MLC

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/18/2016

Next to the Cebu City Council, the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), comes another group that wants the Cebu City government to stop using its 15-hectare landfill in Barangay…

Argao to close old landfill

Nestle L. Semilla 09/15/2016

The Argao municipal government will close their landfill which their mayor described as similar to the Inayawan landfill in Cebu City. Mayor Stanley Caminero said yesterday that they were closing their landfill in Sitio Lulukhan, Barangay Sia,…

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